Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (WW 2): books - history (2/2)
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B-17 - Missions de combat : Chasseurs, Flak et Forteresses volantes
"B-17 Missions de combat" emmène le lecteur visiter les postes de chaque membre d'équipage de la Forteresse volante, pour lui raconter l'aventure de ceux qui ont volé et combattu à bord d'un des plus fameux bombardiers de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Des témoignages uniques d'aviateurs sont réunis avec des photos d'archives qui rendent vivantes les histoires de ces gladiateurs de l'air jusque dans les moindres détails.
Ce livre comprend plus de 100 témoignages, pour la plupart jamais publiés jusqu'alors, de membres d'équipage de B-17. Chaque membre d'équipage raconte son expérience tout à tour - le pilote, le copilote, le navigateur, le radio, le bombardier, le mécanicien-mitrailleur, les mitrailleurs de queue, de tourelle... - pour donner une vision complète d'une mission de guerre sur B-17. Une centaine de souvenirs, près de 40 photos tirées des archives militaires et 180 photos d'archives illustrent ce livre.
Author:
Martin Bowman
Specs:
152 pages, 28 x 25.5 cm / 11 x 10 in, hardback
Illustrations:
620 b&w and colour photographs
Publisher:
ETAI (F, 2010)
EAN:
9782726889893
B-17 - Missions de combat : Chasseurs, Flak et Forteresses volantes
B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eighth Air Force (Part 1)
The Boeing B-17 has come to epitomise the American war effort in Europe, the huge four-engined heavy day bomber taking the fight to Germany from the late summer of 1942 through to VE-Day. The primary operator of the Flying Fortress in Western Europe was the 'Mighty Eighth'. This volume, which is the first of two dealing exclusively with the 'Mighty Eighth', covers the 15 Bomb Groups of the First Air Division, each of which controlled four squadrons. The evolution of the force is traced through first-hand accounts of those individuals that took part in the action.
Contents: Yankee Doodle Goes To War - Spreading the Wealth - 'Black Thursday' and beyond - 'Big Week' and 'Big B - Final Victory - Appendices.
Author:
Martin Bowman
Specs:
116 pages, 24.5 x 18.5 x 1 cm / 9.7 x 7.3 x 0.39 in, paperback
Illustrations:
photographs and drawings (in b&w and colour)
Publisher:
Osprey Publishing (GB, 2000)
Series:
Combat Aircraft (18)
EAN:
9781841760216
B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eighth Air Force (Part 1)
B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eighth Air Force (Part 2)
The Boeing B-17, which has come to epitomise the American war effort in Europe, took the fight to Germans from the late summer of 1942 through to VE-Day. Its primary operator in Western Europe was the 'Mighty Eighth', who controlled 27 bomb groups for much of the war.
This second of two volumes covers the 14 Bomb Groups of the Third Air Division. First hand accounts, period photography, profile artworks and nose art scrap views bring to life aircraft from each of the groups within the Third Air Division.
Author:
Martin Bowman
Specs:
96 pages, 24.5 x 18.5 x 0.5 cm / 9.7 x 7.3 x 0.2 in, paperback
Illustrations:
93 b&w and 18 colour photographs, drawings
Publisher:
Osprey Publishing (GB, 2002)
Series:
Combat Aircraft (36)
EAN:
9781841764344
B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eighth Air Force (Part 2)
Although the Fifteenth Air Force was dismissed as 'minor leaguers' by the Eighth Air Force, strategic bombers from this outfit had done a 'major league' job on Axis targets in southern Europe following its formation in Italy in November 1943. And the heavy bombers employed by the Fifteenth were of course the venerable B-17 and B-24.
At its peak strength, the Fifteenth's B-17 force comprised six groups of four squadrons each, all controlled by the 5th Bomb Wing. Having been a part of the Fifteenth Air Force in 1944, author Bill Hess has long been waiting to write a definitive account on 'his air force'.
Author:
William N. Hess
Specs:
96 pages, 25 x 18.5 x 0.6 cm / 9.8 x 7.3 x 0.24 in, paperback
